Dear Readers, Contributors and Passers By,
Firstly, I wish to extend my love and thanks to Lewis Spurgin, Alasdair Kay, Simon George, Jessica Patient, Ryan Watts, James Russell, Amy Wragg, Liz Bentley, Carmina Masoliver, John Carrington, Sam Clodd, Matthew Hamblion, Tensei Sugahara, Lisa Farrell, Rachel Charman, Ray Morgan, Rebecca Ford, Mark Lander, Barnaby Tidman, and all the musicians and artists that performed at our events.
When Sleepy Orange began in 2006 it was the realisation of an idea that I’d had since I was 18. It suddenly descended into a whirlwind of activity; it was. Like all things it burst outwards, settled a little and finally slowed. We did some amazing things, some of my fondest memories from those years are to do with what Sleepy Orange did and achieved.
Like most ideas of this sort though, it takes an immense amount of time and people power to really make these things work. Personal circumstances changed and with that so to did the time I could spend on SO. Things I wanted to do just could not happen.
I am immensely proud of the work that has been published on these pages and I always will be. That is why when I started to think about what to do with SO ultimately I knew I did not want to confine it to the big binary graveyard.
It will take time and it will take people power but SO is going to remain. It will be different – it will exist only in magazine format, but it will continue to be multi-disciplinary and it will showcase the best of original thought and creativity that this fair isle has to impress. And sometimes from a bit further a field too.
If you would like to be involved (or continue to be involved) please email editor@sleepyorange.org.uk. We need writers, photographers and graphic designers and the other important people in between. And we need ideas.
We may be small, but I will always believe that we are significant,
Love Katie xx
